Cooper is considered an important contributor to the american novel because

a. of his new style and technique, which changed the form of the novel
b. he opened new territories of american life for writers to explore
c. he used symbolic characters to represent important attributes

B. he opened new territories of American life for writers to explore

Explanation:

James Fenimore Cooper was an american novelist that explore several different themes on the American life for the first time, and that opened new ways for the writers to talk about different things, he started writting about the native americans, and their relationship with society, he wrote about spies, he wrote about many different that he listened or witnessed in normal-everyday life.

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